Visible insights from hidden diversity: Mapping soil microbial communities
Anne-Cathrine Storgaard DanielsenAnne-Cathrine Storgaard Danielsen and Sebastian Gutierrez from Aarhus University discuss how soil biology can be integrated into national and international soil maps and models to give us early warning systems to detect soil degradation. Visible insights...
Scientists invite collaboration on new soil health platform with AI chatbot to support sustainable farming and land management across Europe
AI 4 Soil HealthA pan-European team of scientists and soil innovation partners are inviting soil advisers, land managers, policymakers and researchers to help shape the next phase of AI4SoilHealth’s Soil Health Viewer. This AI-enabled platform is designed to support more informed land management,...
Help us improve AI4SoilHealth’s new Soil Health Viewer
AI 4 Soil HealthFuture users such as soil advisers, land managers, policy makers and scientists are being invited to help shape a new Soil Health Viewer from the AI4SoilHealth project – a tool designed to put powerful, AI-driven soil insights in the palm of your hand....
Which hidden process could impact carbon accounting and soil health indicators?
AI 4 Soil HealthThere’s a powerful but often hidden mechanism that could reshape how we measure carbon and assess soil health – particularly in croplands. Nicolas Breil’s research for INRAE explores the Rhizosphere Priming Effect (RPE), a process...
Integrating soil spectroscopy data into soil health mapping
Sebastian GutierrezIn this blog Sebastian Gutierrez and Sarem Norouzi from the Department for Agroecology at Aarhus University discuss how soil spectroscopy can be used to create more accurate, scalable soil health maps for Denmark and beyond....
Are soil enzymes the secret to the future of farming?
Sonia MellerHealthy soil is the foundation of our entire food system – but many of the most important things happening in soil are invisible. For too long, farmers and policy makers have relied on slow, static...
Mapping soil degradation in Europe
Dr Mehdi AfsharWith soil health rising up the EU policy agenda, new science is helping explain where degradation risks are growing. Dr Mehdi Afshar’s recent work provides a timely, continent‑wide assessment. In this blog, Mehdi shares his...
Providing a novel indicator to understand soils’ potential to mitigate climate change
Dr Sabine ReinschA new international study, carried out as part of the AI4SoilHealth project, has shown that combined measurements of soil organic matter (SOM) and soil organic carbon (SOC) increase our understanding of the carbon storage potential...
Europe adopts its first soil health law
Giovanna GiuffrèOn 23 October 2025, the European Parliament (EP) gave its final approval to the Directive on Soil Monitoring and Resilience (SML)— Europe’s first-ever law dedicated to soil health. This landmark legislation crowns more than a...
Improving the future of soil monitoring: A new European map of Soil Water Retention Curves
Sarem NorouziSarem Norouzi from the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University talks about his research into a new machine learning approach that enhances the Soil Water Retention Curve’s role in soil health. These findings are being...